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作       者:Ronald, Susan

出  版  社:HarperCollins e-books

出版时间:2009-10-01

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Dubbed the "pirate queen" by the Vatican and Spain's Philip II, Elizabeth I was feared and admired by her enemies. Extravagant, whimsical, and hot-tempered, Elizabeth was the epitome of power. Her visionary accomplishments were made possible by her daring merchants, gifted rapscallion adventurers, astronomer philosophers, and her stalwart Privy Council, including Sir William Cecil, Sir Francis Walsingham, and Sir Nicholas Bacon. All these men contributed their vast genius, power, greed, and expertise to the advancement of England.In The Pirate Queen, historian Susan Ronald offers a fresh look at Elizabeth I, focusing on her uncanny instinct for financial survival and the superior intellect that propelled and sustained her rise. The foundation of Elizabeth's empire was built on a carefully choreographed strategy whereby piracy transformed England from an impoverished state on the fringes of Europe into the first building block of an empire that covered two-fifths of the world.Based on a wealth of historical sources and thousands of personal letters between Elizabeth and her merchant adventurers, advisers, and royal "cousins," The Pirate Queen tells the thrilling story of Elizabeth and the swashbuckling mariners who terrorized the seas, planted the seedlings of an empire, and amassed great wealth for themselves and the Crown.
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Cover

Title Page

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Author's Note

Indroduction

Part I The Desperate Quest for Security

1. The Lord's Doing

2. A Realm Exhausted

3. The Queen, Her Merchants and Gentlemen

4. The Quest for Cash

5. The Merchants Adventurers, Antwerp, and Muscovy

6. The Politics of Piracy, Trade, and Religion

7. Raising the Stakes

8. Cunning Deceits

9. The Gloves Are Off

10. Lovell's Lamentable Voyage

11. The Troublesome Voyage of John Hawkins

Part II Harvesting the Sea

12. The Queen and Alba's Pay Ships

13. The Cost of Failure

14. Undeclared Holy War

15. Drake's War

16. The Dread of Future Foes

17. Drake at the Treasure House of the World

18. From a Treetop in Darien

19. Success at a Cost

20. Dr. Dee's Nursery and the Northwest Passage

21. Dark Days at Rathlin Island

22. Drake's Perfect Timing

23. The Northwest and the Company of Kathai

24. In the Shadow of Magellan

25. Into the Jaws of Death

26. The Famous Voyage

27. The World Is Not Enough

28. Elizabeth Strikes Back in the Levant

29. Katherine Champernowne's Sons Take Up the American Dream

30. The Defeats of 1582-84

31. Water!

32. Roanoke

Part III The Spanish War

33. The Queen Lets Loose Her Dragon

34. The Camel's Back

35. Cadiz

36. The Plundering of the Spanish Armada

37. America Again... and Again?

38. The Last Gasp of the Early Roaring '90s

Part IV Dawn of Empire

39. The Alchemy That Turned Plunder into Trade

40. Essex, Ireland, and Tragedy

41. Raleigh, Virginia, and Empire

42. The East and the East India Company

Epilogue

Appendix I. The Petty Navy Royal

Appendix II. The Flotilla from New Spain of August 1587

Endnotes

Glossary

Select Bibliographical Essay and Suggest ed Reading

Searchable Terms

Photographic Insert

About The Author

Other Books by Susan Ronald

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher

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